Roller coaster engineer Korey Kiepert joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about roller coasters and the people who design them. How do roller coasters work? Who invented the first ...

Growing up, I had what some would consider an unhealthy obsession with roller coasters. From the first time riding the Texas Giant at Six Flags Over Texas to watching the sun set and rise while ...

With the coaster’s tallest section now in place, construction crews will move on to installing the remaining 3,000 feet of ...

What makes the win interesting is that it’s not new. Bolt has now taken the top spot five years in a row, earning the title ...

Theme park fans will have to wait a bit longer to experience the “first of its kind” roller coaster coming to Six Flags Magic ...

Things got pretty scary when Disney headed down to Austin for this year’s SXSW. But it was the good kind of scary. During its “The Future of World-Building at Disney” panel, the Mouse House debuted a ...

The new Fast & Furious coaster revved up its engines and raced around the hillside-hugging track for the first time at Universal Studios Hollywood in preparation of the 2026 debut of the new thrill ...

Matthew Cantu, 24, and Nicholas Sanchez, 20, were riding the thrill attraction, dubbed “Circuit Breakers,” at Austin’s Circuit of the America’s sports complex when it climbed 130-feet and suddenly ...

The Circuit Breaker roller coaster malfunction left two men dangling vertically for hours at Circuit of the Americas near ...